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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Prejudice
Romance
Affection
Integrity
Rather
Anything
Lizzy
Without
Matrimony
Marry

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